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Church secrets

Father O’Riely and father O’Brien

Father O’Brien.

Yes father O’Riely.

What would you say if I told you the sins that Mary O’Hara told me in confessional this after noon?

I’d tell you to whisper, we don’t want anyone knowing that were breaking the holly vow of silence.

Tell me father O’Riely, who’s she been seeing this time, it’s not father O’Sin again is it?

© Written by Dominic John Gill www.poetry.net.au  dominicj7@poetry.net.au  Created on  CREATEDATE 5/10/00